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	1. What is the Coalition for Quality Healthcare? Click for Answer >
	2. What does the Coalition hope to accomplish? Click for Answer >
	3. What is a “pharmacy benefit manager,” or “PBM?” Click for Answer >
	4. How do PBMs make money? Click for Answer >
	5. What’s wrong with the way PBMs currently operate? Click for Answer >
	6. Why should consumers care about mandatory mail-order prescriptions? Click for Answer >
	7. Won’t forcing PBMs to give local pharmacies the same financial terms they give their own mail-order units raise healthcare expenses for businesses? Click for Answer >
	8. Filling prescriptions by mail order seems like a great idea. Why are local pharmacies against it? Click for Answer >
	9. Instead of complaining about the special deals that mail-order companies make with PBMs, why don’t local pharmacies make their own deals with the PBMs? Click for Answer >
	10. If pharmacies could fill 90-day prescriptions for just one co-pay, would businesses save just as much as through mail order? Click for Answer >
	11. Can’t I just tell my pharmacist which maintenance drugs I receive through mail order, so that he/she is aware of possible drug interaction or overlap problems? Click for Answer >
	12. What else is sacrificed when drugs are ordered by mail? Click for Answer >
	13. Explain the rebate and discount system that exists between PBMs, drug manufacturers and mail-order companies? How are pharmacies hurt by that system? Click for Answer >
	14. How could the loss of that business affect some drugstores? Click for Answer >
	15. What would be the wider impact of that development? Click for Answer >
	16. What portion of local pharmacy revenues are comprised of maintenance drugs? Click for Answer >
	17. Where does the Coalition for Quality Healthcare get its funding? Click for Answer >
	18. How much does the Coalition for Quality Healthcare spend on administration? Click for Answer >

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Coalition for Quality Healthcare

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consumer options and preserving the traditional contributions of local
pharmacies to the state's economy"

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Potential conflict: Each of the three largest PBMs runs a mail order division that is more profitable than administering a health plan.

PBMs have a strong incentive to switch patients to more expensive brand-name medications that earn substantial rebates from manufacturers, which are not passed along fully to consumers or employers.